China Editors Reach Deal as Censorship Tensions Spread

By

Paul Mozur,

Josh Chin and

Brian Spegele

Updated Jan. 9, 2013 5:05 a.m. ET

GUANGZHOU, China—Journalists at a hard-hitting Chinese newspaper reached a deal with provincial authorities that would allow the next issue of the paper to come out as normal despite a conflict over censorship, even as the fallout appeared to have spread to another newspaper in the same media group.

Staff at the popular Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangdong province were demanding an end to prepublication censorship and had said they might cancel the next issue, due out on Thursday. The editors wanted to be permitted to...